Test Match Special - No Balls: EMERGENCY - Crossy’s won The Hundred!

Episode Date: September 2, 2025

Alex Hartley & Kate Cross record an emergency pod as Crossy wins The Hundred with the Northern Superchargers!

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I think it's the wobble ball. And it just nips back. It jags back. It's the nipbacker. That is a beauty from Kate Cross. An absolute seed. That is a beauty from Cross. Hello and welcome back to Novels

The Emergency Cricket Podcast with me Kate Cross and you Alex Hartley Hello With you, champion of the 100 Where's your medal? You're in your hat Where is your medal? Get that thing

We put it in a box didn't we? Yeah, we put it away We did put it away Crossy I know Have you got neckache today from carrying it? how good is that so good so good congratulations fine i'll put it on fine fine fine yes look at that also i'm making no apologies for the fact that i'm basically

horizontal for this episode yeah you are you are completely completely lying down i'm i'm i'm a bit i'm perched for anyone that can't see me because obviously it's podcast i'm just like on, you know how people sit on a shay long? A bit like that. Yeah, that paint me like one of your French girls. Just a bit half up, half down. Grossie, you've won the hundred. We've won the hundred.

Oh my God, Al, it was just, honestly, the best day. Like, I've had a thousand text messages and Instagrams and stuff, and I've started replying to them all. And all I'm saying back is, like, how much fun I had and what a great day it was. It's not only, like, how much fun you had yesterday. how much fun you've had the whole tournament. Yeah, it has been great. The 100's always great.

We've always said it, haven't we? And I remember three years ago when I got shipped off across the Pennines to the superchargers, you said to me, the 100 is the 100 wherever you play. So don't worry about that. And that's always the case.

But this has been great. We've been winning, which always helps, but it has just been such a fun month. You've also, like, in the last three years, found yourself a new little home? and new little set of friends and like you've all gelled so much like I'm so so pleased you've won I know it was so good and do you know what I think I I don't know I found it quite weird how you can make such a home in a rivals dressing room like I probably

goes to show how like nice and environment women's cricket is domestically and stuff but it has just been great and I'm so sad I'm so sad that I'm not with the girls today like everyone's just dispersed and gone home and we're not like we should have booked something in like a pub lunch or something today but we all all have domestic cricket on Thursday so we've all had to disappear that's actually really sad isn't it it's like okay yeah we won last night we celebrated and see you that's literally it like I didn't say bye to half the staff because they didn't come out out with us um But we had an amazing day at Lords.

Obviously, the benefit of playing the first game is that you then stay for the men's game and not going to lie, I didn't watch a ball of it. In fact, no, I did watch one ball. And I sadly remembered which ball it was when I was with the cricketer that involved. Let me guess you told him. I was sat talking to Sam Hay and I was like,

was it you that got run out? And that was the only ball that I watched of the men's game. Oh, crossy. But it's just so good. Just sat in the dressing room, like, did our fines meeting. and that took about an hour actually because everyone says stupid things.

I want to, before we get into the nitty-gritty of yesterday, Crosset, we have to talk about you texting me the morning of the Eliminator saying you've got a really bad feeling. I don't know how we're going to digest this whole weekend actually because it's not just about yesterday.

Like, it does feel like we've had such a memorable weekend. And I feel really sorry for Dav because she obviously had that unbelievable day on Saturday that is career-changing, probably life altering for her and she's had 12 hours to digest it before she's had to turn it all around

and try and do it again and I thought she was brilliant yesterday in the final actually I thought it could easily have had first ball duck written all over it but yeah I did have a bad feeling and I couldn't quite put my finger on it I've not had any feelings about any of the games of cricket this summer but that was the one

I was just like oh something doesn't feel right something's not quite right anyway it wasn't the feeling wasn't for you it was for the men yeah we said that didn't we said all probably because the forecast was a bit iffy and then the men didn't get to play which was a shame but obviously everyone everyone knows the rules going in there do you think dad's innings for the eliminator was potentially the best you've seen in the hundred easily oh easily in the hundred completely easily in the hundred it's about right up there four four innings in my mind stick out and then They've been games that I've played in. One of them was Meg Lannning at Chelmsford in 2019, I think it was, when she got about 140 off not many balls.

And that was a day where I was like, wow, this is obviously very hard to bowl that, but we're watching something very special. The other two are in the World Cup final of 2022 when Healy got that 150. And then Nat followed it over at 140. They were two innings that was like, wow, to produce those in World Cup. finals is, again, very special. Yeah. And then DAVs.

But DAVs was different because... She's 18. That'll never... Yeah, she's 18. It's an eliminator. She's had a good tournament. She's, like, done her role at the top of the order for her. She's had 150, but she's not been, like, in form.

So it was like, when, as soon as she hit that six off, was it Eva Gray, the one that she just picked up when it went square. That... that was the one where I was like, wow, this, like, we could see something amazing here. But she was, I just remember being like, my jaw being on the floor, being like, it's not ending. It's not, she's gone again. Wow, that's bigger. The way she was striking the ball was like, I've never seen it before.

So Deandre Dotting got a 38 ball 100 in 2010, and that was amazing. Harry Brooke had a 41 ball 100 in the 100. So she's only one ball off that. Did you see that she said that she needs to get in the gym to take the 60s further? I was like, but that I'd give you the same score off the same amount of balls. You actually just needed to face one less dot. I wonder how many dot balls she had in that, 41, 42.

It took her 17 balls to get her second 50. That is just incredible. Do you know who deserves a shout out though? and we did really, really speak about this in the dressing room afterwards, but ADR's role in that innings was so important because she was, in the partnership of 75, she was three off six or something. It was crazy.

Yeah, Dav had faced 22 balls of the power play or something like that. Like it was just mental. Yeah, and then all ADR knew to do was to just get off strike because Dav was on. Like that's what you say, didn't you just, If someone's on, get them on strike, and she did that perfectly. And then I think ADR realized how good a pitch it was and was like, right, I want some of this. And then obviously, Litch just did Litch thing.

She's been so, so, so consistent for us this summer. Belsie gets not many runs, which is unusual. Holly gets the first baller. And then Nick Carey goes in and hits Grace Harris for 22 on five balls. And it's like, but that got us over the two. So I was padded up to going next. and Lisa was sat next to me. She said, like, there's 10 balls left.

We had 1-8-1, I think. So she was like, even a runner ball here gets us to 191, which is a good total on this pitch. And then we got 214. It was incredible, like, incredible. Take me inside the dressing room, because you've obviously won that game at the halfway stage. Like, it would have.

You say that? I didn't. Crossy. Oh, yeah, I don't really, I know you've rolled your eyes, but 200 is a lot of things to change. 2014 but but if anyone was going to do it it was going to be Grace Harris and it was going to be on that pitch

yeah and I understand that and I do understand that but the chance of her coming off were very very slim they did the right thing putting her at the top of the order because that's the only way they were going to win that game yeah one of our coaches actually said like I wonder if they after that set of five whether they shouldn't have opened with her to just actually give her a bit of space to so maybe put her at three to maybe just

you know even just get five balls to just write okay settle down a little bit anyway you win the game I want to know what what it's like in the dressing room knowing you're playing a final the next day it was actually quite calm obviously everyone was so pleased with the result

and everyone was just so so not over what Dav had just done but we have a little award that we had so we got a team song we sound the team song we got a little award that's a little purple duck that goes to like the MVP player and it doesn't have to be whoever's won the

like match hero award that's not one of those little ducks we picked up in a bar last year no no no it's a bit bigger than that a bit bigger than that yeah but Belzy Annabelle Sutherland did this really lovely speech where she just summarised the whole game and gave everyone the shoutouts

they needed to and even for us to take nine wickets on that pitch felt like I know the team the spirit we're going to have to go after the score so it was going to create more opportunities but even to take the nine wickets felt like a a little win so um belzy did that and then holly obviously just and Lisa just spoke about how you've got 24 hours what less than that to turn it around and and back it up and try and go again so it was just all about doing the right things from there so we stayed and watched the men for a little bit and then it rained obviously for the men um so

everyone everyone's probably in bed by half 10 11 but it's the sleep isn't it that you can't switch off so I was just replaying dabbling in because in my head I didn't get sleep until back two o'clock it was so good wasn't it and then you turn up to loads the next day Perry's practicing she's on the outfield and you're like we need to warm up yeah Perry's warming up did you hear what happened before we got there though so apparently there's been a really bad road traffic incident

which meant that a helicopter needed to land on the nurse ground so that they could airlift the passenger to hospital so then everyone's preparation got completely changed because no one was allowed to go and have hits, obviously, on the outfield, on the nursery ground, sorry. So that kind of threw over on a little bit, but I think in a way, that was really good because it almost switched people, not, didn't switch people off, but it made them think a little bit differently, and I think that was a really good thing. Yeah, yeah, it was almost like, not a distraction, because it's almost like, okay, that is what it is,

that it's an emergency, there's nothing we can do. Yeah, and almost like, that's real life, like, someone, obviously really hurt themselves and whatever goes on today it probably really doesn't actually matter in the grand scheme of things and it kept the group together a little bit longer as well

because we then all went upstairs into the dining room and had food together and normally like the battles are on and off and having the hits so but no that was obviously Perry then was warming up so we weren't allowed to do some other bits and pieces but then you're playing in a final

at Lord's like it was amazing you find a way to get up for it, are you? Yeah. I actually think in 2020, when did we play the final, 23, played against Brave, didn't we? We had the Eliminator against you the day before and it rained and we got through. And I remember struggling because I never like got to the finish of that game. So you never got the like disappointment of losing or the jubilation of winning. You never got the adrenaline rush finish from it. So I actually think us playing and completing the game in the was a really big part of us going on to win yesterday

because in 2023 we got three key wickets in the power play early and I remember us being high as kites, we were flying around chasing Gracie Ballinger around when she got Smitty out and then I remember we kind of nosedived a little bit with our energy and our adrenaline so I actually think we were able to stay a lot more level yesterday for the whole of the day. Yeah, and bowling first, after 50 balls you were so on top. And I know

Frey Kemp came in and she got 26 off 20 balls or something like she started biting really nicely but as soon as you got her out you were, it was like you are winning this. Yeah, I remember thinking with about 15 balls to go

it might have been 20, we got a wicket. Can't remember who we got out but I remember saying to the girls there's 19 balls left now like this is actually the moment where it really matters because if they go and get 30 or 40 now

that's again the momentum completely shifts because I felt like the first innings, the momentum did keep shifting, didn't it? It was like not much happened. Then we took a few wickets. Then they got a little partnership. Then Belze got Danny out. Then Kempi came in and built a partnership again.

So it kind of like ebden flowed all the way through the first innings, I thought. I think if you ever watch it back, you'll realize just how on top you were, honestly. Really? Yeah. If you ever watch it back, they were going to run a ball. They didn't look like they were going to get 115 on the board. They did well to do that because Maddie came and smacked a few boundaries. It looked like they were going to finish on like,

That's so interesting how you feel different when you're involved in it. And again, obviously we chased it down, three down. But there were so many nerves in the dugout just because it's a final and you're so desperate to win. But then when you look at the scorecard, you're like, oh, we won by seven wickets. It was quite comfortable. Yeah, yeah. I want to talk about your tournament. Because you have had an incredible tournament.

We were looking, we've taken 15 wickets. I have had two extra games. No, stop with the humbleness. Stop with the humbleness. You've got the most power play wickets. You and Marisand Cap right up the top. Like, you've just, you've smashed it, genuinely smashed it. I actually, I've loved it though,

and I think we always talk about that on this podcast, don't we? Any kids ask us for advice? It's make sure you keep enjoying it. That's the main thing. And obviously, I've probably not enjoyed my cricket as much this summer for obvious reasons. But I always know how much I love the environment with the supercharge

and I think Holly brings the best out of me I think she brings the best out of everyone she's said it to you on that interview yesterday she'll go so unnoticed for how much she is able to bring a group of 15 players together and make everyone have the best time and all be aligned to one goal like it obviously can't speak for them

but I would imagine even the four girls who didn't get a game probably had a great month yeah it looked like they did last night everyone had a great night last night but yeah I've enjoyed it and I think we spoke about it didn't we but I had a tiny little bit of technical stuff that I did right at the beginning of the tournament and it feels like it's really helped me out

and helped me get a little bit that movement back that I'm probably more known for so it was just nice like I've loved I love this team I love contributing to it but what is it about this team you've played for so like I'm not saying for so many teams I make she sounds like a cricket like you have played for a lot of teams but there is something about you playing for the supercharges that always, always makes you smile?

I don't, I can't even, we have fun, like, but I don't know why it feels different to anything else, maybe because we're so clued into what our roles are. And I was talking to you about this on the train, like, obviously I've been quite stressed the last month, but when I got out on the cricket field, I just know what I'm going to deliver, I know what Holly wants me to do, I know if it doesn't, go well what my plan B looks like and I know if Dandre Dottin gets going that I'm going to go to this plant like I think there's just so much clarity around what everyone does and then I think we had batters in form we had bowlers who bowled well so you never necessarily needed the sixth

the sixth bowler well like we only bought lucy if a left hander was in so it's very tactical so I think there's just an element of calmness when you're playing as well there's no even in the hundred when it is chaotic it never feels like that when holly's in charge I think there's something about Holly Armitage. There is something about her and what she does and what she does to teams because personally, in my opinion, I think she's the best captain in the country.

But like, you make a mistake and she's laughing. You do something and she's smiling and she's running up to her and she's like, you can tell she's just cracking a joke but then she'll talk to you seriously about cricket. I think the way she manages people from the outside, I don't know, there's something about her.

she doesn't change she is the exact same holly on the cricket field as what you'd get on the bus as what you'd get on the night out as what you'd get for the coffee in the morning at breakfast she's exactly the same and obviously I completely agree with you I think she's one of the best captains I've played under

but she's also so calm in those moments of so there was a really good example of it yesterday where Gracie B got hit for two fours in her she followed her first set of five and did the ten straight through she got hit for two fours and she's gone over to Grace and said, should we do this?

And Grace, which is so honest, she said, no, I just think they were two really poor balls. And she's like, right, perfect. Go back and execute then. Go back to Plano. Yeah. Just calm. And I think that breeds calmness

with the bowlers as well. Yeah, there's no panic. There's no panic. Anyway, do you've won the 100. We've won the 100. Honestly, though, I don't know how to show people how heavy this medal is. Maybe if I bang it on the mic for it.

No, no, no. I can tell you. Oh my God, I can tell you how heavy it is, Crossey. Oh, I know this story. So, right, I want to just say a quick note to this is how much the Northern Superchargers are a gem of a team, like a genuine gem of a team. I've obviously done the post-match interviews yesterday and then it's like, right, okay, see the Chargers, give them all a hug and say, like, good luck, well done, sorry, well done, enjoy your night. every single one of your teammates invited me one to the team room and two on the night out

every single one like just genuinely nice people so what did someone call us the other day the super swillers which we're not obviously but we were last night I thought you meant me and you then you were the super swimmers right

the story of the medal so Holly Armitage the captain it's like she's like it's so heavy I can swing it around my neck And I reckon I could do it like 20 times. So she's like, gone to swing this medal around the neck. And I'm just stood with her, like next to her, holding my glass.

And it's full to the brim. You've just bought it. It's literally like, you know, when you've got really close to sit it because it's that full. She knocks it with a medal. She doesn't touch any part of my body, just the glass. And it's shattered. Like, absolutely shattered.

I remember getting wet on my leg and I was like, what's that? And then I turned around and you just stood there holding half a cup. I was still like, what's just happened? Turn around and all these medals dangling off her shoulder and she's like, it's quite heavy actually. So she started doing that in the dresser and she's like, it's well heavy.

I bet I can swing it around my neck. And she started doing it. I was like, stop, stop that now. That looks really dangerous. And anyway, then this morning I caught her with her before she got the bus back up to Headingley. And she went, oh, crossy, I knocked a drink out of Al's hand. I was like, yeah, no, I didn't know it was because you're metal swinging, though.

And then she went, and I hit myself on the head with her. I've got a right lump on my bun. So she's got this massive lump on her head here because it flew up and here on the head. Well, she said, she was like, oh, I'm so sorry, I'll get you another drink. She went, but you should be grateful it wasn't your teeth. It's like, I mean, yeah, if you want to do it like that. she is she's brilliant and she she yeah she just brings a team together it's just she creates fun and it nothing feels pressure and that's like such an incredible ability to have when you're leading a group

of people because she will feel pressure and she's yeah i feel like we should probably speak to her should we actually should i want to get dav on obviously and i want to get holly on because just the way she's gone about the last few years i want to know what she actually feels and things Holly. She was like, but she was carrying the big H, she was like, hey, it's for Holly. H for Holly. The way she carried that trophy, like, it was the lightest thing in the world. It was like, so heavy. So heavy. Literally so heavy. Oh, no, Crossy, like, genuinely. A great night. Well, it was all right, actually. I'm not going to lie. It was an all right night. But I just, I nearly cried when I was running over to interview you because I'm just so,

proud of you like genuinely that's i you caught me at the moment where i just had a little tear in my eye because i'd hugged febe graham on the pitch obviously we ran on we celebrated in the dugout ran on hugged belsey and nick nick by the way just completely gone under the radar here but had an unbelievable tournament say that she's come from preseason hadn't played any cricket anyway um so yeah i'd then sort of seeing phoebe and i'm really good friends with febes and she was playing for the Southern Brave but I hadn't got a game in the tournament and she just gave me this massive heartfelt hug

and it was like that it just got me going and I just had these tears in my eyes and then the cameras come on to you and you're like no I don't want to cry and then you grabbed me and I was like okay I'm going to cry in the BBC cheers yeah so on the tweets there

and we saw you cry on the telly but proud of you I am I think to get the news that you got halfway through the 100 and for you to still manage to enjoy it still manage to play this smile on your face you've won another trophy this summer you're second in the summer like you're a FA Cup in the 100 now

yeah you and we've got one left to go England don't know what they're missing crossy you're a winner thank you Alex when you're on you're on I um I um obviously we've got like four games to go back and play now for the for the Metro Bank and they're 50 over cricket

and I was trying to comprehend I got I got a I got a 10 I got a taxi with Grace Ballinger to the train station this morning and as I got out I was like good luck bowling your 60 balls on Thursday Grace

compared to the 20 that you have to ball in the 100 it's so going to be so grim well to put anyone in context of how hard it can be to go from 100 cricket to Metro Bank I reside yeah you did didn't you

this is what killed you off yeah I didn't come back the thought of going back I'm doing fine leg to find life for 50 overs, put a knife in it. You were half gone before then, to be fair. You can throw, could you? Your shoulder was gone. No, I'm mentally cooked.

Do you know what yesterday did make me realise, though? And I don't know why it's taken this long to realise, is that there's still so many great days to be had in cricket. Like, obviously there's so many crap ones. But yesterday was up there as one of my, like, top five in my... career and it wasn't for England it wasn't a World Cup it was just a great group of people playing great cricket at the home of cricket in front of 22 nearly 23,000 people and it was just like that's the thing I probably need to remember over the next couple of weeks yesterday is why you

play the game yeah for those moments and as you say there's still so many more opportunities for those moments. Yeah. Crossy, I'm so proud of you. I'm not sure Beckin'am on Sunday's going to feel the same. Yeah, no, there might be slightly different. It might be slightly different.

Right, crossing. Alex's email does, is it you? Yeah, we wish. A couple of questions have popped into my mind I was hoping you could help me with. To Kate Cross specifically, you seem to bowl with a towel tucked into your back pocket. Isn't it a risk of falling out? Or do you use clothes pegs to pin it in?

place. No, I don't take any clothespegs out on the pitch with me. Tuck it in your waistband, aren't you? Yeah, it is a risk it falling out, but I get really sweaty hands, so I try and like wipe my hands before I touch the ball to bowl it. So that's why I often have a towel there. But it fell out, actually. Was it yesterday? It's a dead ball, isn't it? No, in the Eliminator. Yeah, if you bowl it, if it falls out when you bowl it and you get a wicket, then it can be a dead ball. But if the batter just carries on and it's happy, then it just plays as a ball. Alex Seder says to both of you,

when batting, that's always a dangerous start to a question. When batting, do you prefer a gloved fist bump or a bat tap? I'm seeing far more of the latter this year. I think the bat tap's quite sexy. It's got more sexy, hasn't it? I wouldn't say it's sexy, but it's got better. I remember when it first started,

I was like, oh no, I don't like that. But like, think Annabelle Sillan hits that lovely straight six at Hedley and then taps a bat with a mate I'm like put that on the feet yeah and also you don't then have to go

onto the same side as your partner so you just reach the bat across yeah no I'm I if I was to be a batter I'd be a battapper but knowing my partner they'd be a fist pumper and we'd get confused

you'd get mixed up yeah yeah yeah um David has emailed us and that could be my dad dare Alex and Kate second time email a long long time listener. Well done on keeping us entertained during the 100 and well done

Kate on being on the winning team. You question why the male what? Oh, appendage. Ah, ah, ah, the Hampton. You questioned why a Willie was referred to as a Hampton. Derivation comes from the Courtney rhyming slang and a suburb of South West London Hampton Wick. Enough said, keep up the pod. Best wishes David. Do you reckon it was my dad? Probably. It's probably. It's Probably my dad. Yeah, yeah. Riley has WhatsApp us, which is nice, because you can WhatsApp us now. We'll do the numbers in a minute.

Hi, Alex and Kate. I recently visited Headily to watch Kate play, and I had a great time, and somehow after the game, saw the one and only Alex Hartley in the car park. So I was wondering, have either of you ever met someone famous in a random place, e.g. A car park. That's good. That's good.

I once said hello to Gary Linneker, because I thought I knew him. And then it was after he walked past, I realised I didn't know him. I just know him off the telly. Do you remember when you met who you thought was Steve Bryden? No, no. You thought it was Hugh Grant, didn't you? I thought I met Hugh Grant on the train. It was Steve Briden or whatever he's called.

And you were adamant. I was like, oh my God, oh my God, I'm on the train with Hugh Grant. Still Bill's famous, though. Hugh Grant doesn't get the train. They're still both famous though I bumped into Gorka from Streetly Come Dancing in a coffee shop last week in London

that's cool Nice nice Didn't say hi to him Because obviously was too nervous Yeah Chris Hoy I bumped into the coffee shop here Nice That's a good

He's very famous He's so famous But there's always famous people At the BBC buildings You just got to interview Perry Edwards yesterday That's pretty cool She's well famous I can't believe that

We've just spoken about your day, not about mine. I interviewed Perry Edwards. You actually said to me on the train that you didn't have a ball off until the 50th ball of the men's second innings or something? Yeah, so I do a 50 ball in two in the men's innings, well, both innings. But yeah, after that, I finally got time off. I was absolutely cut. Bless you.

And then you go again. One day cricket starts for the boys. Yeah, Jack's producing that one. And I did have to say, you're going to have to remind me. There's a high chance I'll forget. There is a really good chance you'll forget. And you'll also be like, oh, this is so boring. It's going on so long.

Oh, my God, 50-over cricket. Oh, I was joking with the girls before we left because obviously we'll play against them all in the coming weeks. And I was like, should we all just make them 20 over games? Yeah, nice, yeah. But that is obviously not allowed. Yeah, no. And probably match fixings.

And didn't get spoken about you, just lying. Yeah, no. What are our details, donkey? You can get in touch with us. Gone. No balls are cricket, no, no, no, no balls. Oh, tell me how to drink last night. No balls podcast at BBC.co.com.

Wait, wait, wait, wait. I've just remembered an image of you last night. Oh, no. Bopping round the dance floor. In an overly invincible's cap backwards and a pair of sunglasses and your kit and your medal and you just looked like a right daver. Didn't you take a picture?

No. Someone did. I think ADR might have done. That was, I owe an public apology to Sakib Mahmood because it was his hat. He put it on me, put it on back to front and his glasses. And then I went over to show off in front of the girls. And then Holly Armitage was like, you look like a right idiot. Whip their hat off and just threw it.

Oh, no. So Sakeed text me this morning. He was like, I'm still annoyed you lost my hat. We don't know where it went. Oh, it's disappeared. Disappeared. Oh, no, that is a nice, because they're nice hats. So I was like, I'll go to the club shop and get your new one.

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